Re: OT: ERP/CRM for small refrigeration service shop.

2009-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-08 02:11, John W Foster wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 09:46 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-04-07 04:55, Adrian Levi wrote: 2009/4/7 John W Foster : On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 20:10 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: I am looking for a open source software solution for a service trade business.

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-08 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 02:17:03PM +1000, Alex Samad (a...@samad.com.au) wrote: > > Aiming to get a couple of 1Tb drives to migrate the 3x500Gb RAID5 > > array to a RAID1 and use two of the 500Gb drives for thhe new boot > > drive with LVM (With /boot / /home and so on on it). > > so you are goin

Re: autolock console

2009-04-08 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:41:27PM -0700, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:26:27AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On the standard console (alt+ctr+f1), no x session running, is it > > possible to run a command after a certain number of minutes where no > > keys hav

Re: info libc

2009-04-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Miguel Obliviemo wrote: >On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> Yeah, there a lot of Debian packages. If you have some time, you might >> help out some of the ones that you use that need some TLC. Install >> devscripts and run wnpp-alert. > >Done. I'm not sure why, though. w

Newsletter Article: Where Have All the Good Guys Gone?

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Re: info libc

2009-04-08 Thread Miguel Obliviemo
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Yeah, there a lot of Debian packages. If you have some time, you might help out some of the ones that you use that need some TLC. Install devscripts and run wnpp-alert. Done. I'm not sure why, though. It is in the non-free repository (bec

Iceweasel messing with video & screen flickering

2009-04-08 Thread Bent Elbow
I using debian lenny 5.0 32 bit on my laptop I installed the latest nvidia driver by the nvidia installer (it compiled the driver into the kernel). My video card is Quadro FX 1500M Now, I have the following issue: Whenever iceweasel is running, Kaffeine/mplayer either have black screens (sound sti

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 03:34:57PM +0100, Kelly Harding wrote: > Hi, > > My server has got debian on it currently in the following configuration: > > 250Gb boot drive with partitions for / /boot /home > 3x500Gb drives in RAID5 array, with XFS on top directly. > > Aiming to get a couple of 1Tb dr

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-08 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:34:09PM -0500, Mark Allums (m...@allums.com) wrote: > Not really answering your question directly, but may I suggest, if cost > is not *absolutely* critical, that you consider RAID 10? If it is a > server, then certainly you will want to get away from a three-drive

Re: autolock console

2009-04-08 Thread gcrimp
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:26:27AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > On the standard console (alt+ctr+f1), no x session running, is it > possible to run a command after a certain number of minutes where no > keys have been pressed? Like the gnome screen saver, except for the > console. I want

RE: USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Crawford
> I'm looking at either the Belkin F5U220v1 5-port (4+1) ... There is a Belkin in a Squeeze here; 2.6.26-1 686. Probably have to open the case to verify the 220v1 number. A LAN machine connects through a Linksys USB200M. Also I've connected flash stores and a USB-ATA adapter to a hdd. All

Package building status chart

2009-04-08 Thread T o n g
Hi, I remember that I came across a Debian web page with a chart that shows the percentage of packages successfully built for the archives. What is it? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: info libc

2009-04-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Miguel Obliviemo wrote: >I'm new to Debian. I downloaded the first Lenny DVD and booted it and >installed it. I'm staggered that there can be _five_ DVDs. That's >quite a lot. Yeah, there a lot of Debian packages. If you have some time, you might help out some of the ones that you use t

Re: How to get aptitude to ignore broken dependency

2009-04-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090409012257.ga18...@emurlahn.burrows.local>, Daniel Burrows wrote: >On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 01:08:50AM +0100, Alan Chandler was heard to say: >> How can I get around this and force aptitude to ignore this broken >> dependency > > You can't. You can force the install with dpkg, but aptitu

info libc

2009-04-08 Thread Miguel Obliviemo
Dear list, I'm new to Debian. I downloaded the first Lenny DVD and booted it and installed it. I'm staggered that there can be _five_ DVDs. That's quite a lot. In installing, I chose the "desktop" complexion because I wanted to have a working graphical user interface. Maybe that was a mistak

Error with Samba + Konqueror

2009-04-08 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! I'm trying to access to a CIFS shared directory using samba in Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze with Konqueror, but I obtain a error message saying an error loading 'kio_smb' has happened / Unable to create io-slave. Some idea of how solving it? Thanks in advance. Regards, Daniel -- Fingerprin

Re: How to get aptitude to ignore broken dependency

2009-04-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 01:08:50AM +0100, Alan Chandler was heard to say: > How can I get around this and force aptitude to ignore this broken > dependency You can't. You could try removing gitk, upgrading, then installing it again. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

How to get aptitude to ignore broken dependency

2009-04-08 Thread Alan Chandler
I have a problem For some reason - not sure what - git-core is stuck at 1.6.2.1 whilst the remainder of the git utilities (such as gitk) have been upgraded to 1.6.2.2 Because I need both git-core and gitk, but had accidentally deleted gitk when this issue arose, I manually installed gitk using

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-08 Thread Mark Allums
Kelly Harding wrote: Hi, My server has got debian on it currently in the following configuration: 250Gb boot drive with partitions for / /boot /home 3x500Gb drives in RAID5 array, with XFS on top directly. Aiming to get a couple of 1Tb drives to migrate the 3x500Gb RAID5 array to a RAID1 and u

Re: Trouble burning netinstall CD : SOLVED -- it's trouble with k3b's check.

2009-04-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:32:12 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:06:35 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Wed,08.Apr.09, 20:00:14, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> >>> I get an iso file, the MD5 checksum checks out, but when I burn it >>> using k3b it burns uneventfully, but the readbac

Re: Trouble burning netinstall CD

2009-04-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:06:35 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,08.Apr.09, 20:00:14, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> I get an iso file, the MD5 checksum checks out, but when I burn it >> using k3b it burns uneventfully, but the readback vheck fails. >> >> I had no such trouble burning the Debian li

Re: Trouble burning netinstall CD

2009-04-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,08.Apr.09, 20:00:14, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I get an iso file, the MD5 checksum checks out, but when I burn it using > k3b it burns uneventfully, but the readback vheck fails. > > I had no such trouble burning the Debian live CD. It burned and verified > cleanly. > > Is anything wrong

Re: KDE: Clicking a link in kmail brings konqueror to the foreground (with focus), unlike the behavior on my old Mandriva2006 installation

2009-04-08 Thread Randy Kramer
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 04:58:37 pm Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,07.Apr.09, 09:00:26, Randy Kramer wrote: > >* but this will bring konqueror to the foreground, with the > > focus, obscuring kmail (this is bad, not what I prefer, and not the > > behavior I had on Mandriva2006) and requiring

Re: KDE: Clicking a link in kmail brings konqueror to the foreground (with focus), unlike the behavior on my old Mandriva2006 installation

2009-04-08 Thread Randy Kramer
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 02:23:48 pm Brad Rogers wrote: > I no longer use KMail/Konq, so was trying to remember what I had, and > how it behaved. Sorry I wasn't more help. No problem--thanks for trying! Randy Kramer -- I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I created a video instead.

Re: USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,07.Apr.09, 13:35:21, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I need to add USB to my HP NetServer LPr. > > Do they all "just work" now? > > I'm looking at either the Belkin F5U220v1 5-port (4+1) which I think has > an NEC chipset, or one of the Startech's: > > PCI625USB21 6-port (4+2) with nvidia

Re: opposite of wget?

2009-04-08 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:43 PM, cesarino vinh wrote: > With wget, I can download websites. > > But what can I use for giving data to a html form (eg.: giving the form some > data on a webpage, then click ok/or send - but from command line :D )? You want wget's --post-data option. If you want to s

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009, Miles Fidelman wrote: > One suggestion: think very carefully about whether you really want to do > this. I second that. It is really not smart to have / (or /boot) in LVM if you can help it. I suggest that a small (1GB-4GB) partition for simple md-raid1 be used for / inste

Re: opposite of wget?

2009-04-08 Thread Lee Blackwell
curl? On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:43 PM, cesarino vinh wrote: > With wget, I can download websites. > > But what can I use for giving data to a html form (eg.: giving the form some > data on a webpage, then click ok/or send - but from command line :D )? > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: KDE: Clicking a link in kmail brings konqueror to the foreground (with focus), unlike the behavior on my old Mandriva2006 installation

2009-04-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,07.Apr.09, 09:00:26, Randy Kramer wrote: >* but this will bring konqueror to the foreground, with the focus, > obscuring kmail (this is bad, not what I prefer, and not the behavior I > had on Mandriva2006) and requiring me to do things to restore kmail to > the foreground and get th

Re: KDE: Clicking a link in kmail brings konqueror to the foreground (with focus), unlike the behavior on my old Mandriva2006 installation

2009-04-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 17:21:09 -0400 Randy Kramer wrote: Hello Randy, > Thanks for the response! You're welcome. > Those are already set, along with the "Open as tab in existing > Konqueror when URL is called externally" advanced option--didn't help. Oh. :-( > On your system does kmail open l

opposite of wget?

2009-04-08 Thread cesarino vinh
With wget, I can download websites. But what can I use for giving data to a html form (eg.: giving the form some data on a webpage, then click ok/or send - but from command line :D )?

Re: dpkg corrupted :(

2009-04-08 Thread cesarino vinh
The solution was: I just "rm -f" the "ls -la /var/lib/dpkg/info | grep mc" files :) then apt-get update&&apt-get install -f, and it's ok now :) no errors It works now, thank you!

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-08 Thread Samuel Bächler
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] There are a limited number of place where a piece of software can leak info: 1. to /tmp:Its encrypted 2. to /var/tmp:Its encrypted 3. to somewhere on ~/ I have /home encrypted 4. left in swapits encr

Re: Broken upgrade seems to be perl. need help

2009-04-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ It seems that some of your messages did not get through to the list. I think your other messages may have been filtered because they were addressed to me directly and debian-user was CC'ed only. (This is actually against list policy; although I personally do not mind getting two copies.)]

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
Kelly Harding wrote: Aiming to get a couple of 1Tb drives to migrate the 3x500Gb RAID5 array to a RAID1 and use two of the 500Gb drives for thhe new boot drive with LVM (With /boot / /home and so on on it). Any suggestions gratefully recieved. One suggestion: think very carefully about whet

Trouble burning netinstall CD

2009-04-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
Twice I just brned the install CD, downloaded from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.0/i386/iso-cd/debian-500-i386- netinst.iso from the link on http://debian.org/releases/lenny/debian-installer/ I get an iso file, the MD5 checksum checks out, but when I burn it using k3b it burns unevent

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-08 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:57:59AM -0700, Mike Castle (dalgoda+deb...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Kelly Harding wrote: > > > > Aiming to get a couple of 1Tb drives to migrate the 3x500Gb RAID5 > > array to a RAID1 and use two of the 500Gb drives for thhe new boot > > driv

PGP Key Create greyed out

2009-04-08 Thread Jaan
I am using lenny. I am trying to create a pgp key using Seahorse 2.22.3. However to my surprise, I have found that create button is greyed out. I did some googling, but no solution has come up. I request members to help me out. Thank U, @ Jaan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-08 Thread H.S.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:26:20AM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:17:56PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:46:31PM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>> $ cat

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-08 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Kelly Harding wrote: > > Aiming to get a couple of 1Tb drives to migrate the 3x500Gb RAID5 > array to a RAID1 and use two of the 500Gb drives for thhe new boot > drive with LVM (With /boot / /home and so on on it). Before you do this, you may want to some serious i

spam/virus filter

2009-04-08 Thread michal krajcirovic
Hello, from our current mailserver I want to build another server (which then set up an MX for domains), which will serve as an antispam / antivirus. I want through the mail, those who are out spam / viruses, and the rest forward, or to localize the subject *** SPAM ***, etc., which may then c

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:26:20AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:17:56PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:46:31PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > $ cat /proc/swaps: > > Filename

Re: joining Windows domain (Active Directory)

2009-04-08 Thread PaulNM
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 03:05 -0700, orange wrote: > thanks for the link, but it requires additional information such as > some kerberos server hostnames and so on. The server hostname you're looking for is whatever the (primary) domain controller for your organization happens to be. Your admin sho

sound and java

2009-04-08 Thread mess-mate
Hi folks, can't get sound working in my java environment. (lenny) I use jre-1.6.0_11 and found a file 'sound.properties' in the ../lib dir but can't figure it out . Any help would be very appreciated. best regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

[fixed] Re: dnsmasq: it shows a public IP of a lan machine

2009-04-08 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I am running Debian Testing on an old machine as a router. That machine > is also running dnsmasq for a dhcp server. > > I am also using opendns nameservers by the router machine, and the > router machine as the dns server for my lan. > > I did some changes in dnsmasq.co

Re: how to find out all the domain names that etch looks up

2009-04-08 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Jeffrey Cao wrote: > On 2009-04-07, Long Wind wrote: >> Thanks! >> >> > > /etc/hosts That doesn't address names looked up via DNS. Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F]

Re: install daemon without starting it

2009-04-08 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Ken Irving wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:34:57PM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> John Hasler wrote: >>> Daniel writes: Debian packages should have some standard place to go to to see those latter kinds of information. >>> /usr/share/doc/ contains README.debian, the upstream R

dnsmasq: it shows a public IP of a lan machine

2009-04-08 Thread H.S.
Hello, I am running Debian Testing on an old machine as a router. That machine is also running dnsmasq for a dhcp server. I am also using opendns nameservers by the router machine, and the router machine as the dns server for my lan. I did some changes in dnsmasq.con a few days ago (was playing

Re: How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel?

2009-04-08 Thread Harry Rickards
Quoting Hugo Vanwoerkom : Stefan Monnier wrote: -bash: http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: No such file or directory As long as you keep `stable' in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, that shouldn't be a problem. h...@debian:~$ http://packages.debian.org/lenny/linux-im

Re: How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel?

2009-04-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stefan Monnier wrote: -bash: http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: No such file or directory As long as you keep `stable' in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, that shouldn't be a problem. h...@debian:~$ http://packages.debian.org/lenny/linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 -bash: http://

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-08 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 03:34:57PM +0100, Kelly Harding (kelly.hard...@gmail.com) wrote: > My server has got debian on it currently in the following configuration: > > 250Gb boot drive with partitions for / /boot /home > 3x500Gb drives in RAID5 array, with XFS on top directly. > Aiming to get a

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:10:21AM +0200, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > zhang zhengquan writes: > > >Thanks, then maybe 10x20 is just small for me... > > To verify that the correct resources are being used, run > "xterm -fn 10x20". This will start an xterm with that font, > or display an error th

Re: More Problems configuring sound card with alsa on debian

2009-04-08 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 14:56, Dancing Fingers wrote: > Hi guys, > I'm also having an ALSA problem. I put a SoundBlaster card in my > Lenny box. If I run alsaconf every time I boot and everything works > fine. What I don't understand is why the system resets the conf > files every time it bo

Re: Disk drive recovery help

2009-04-08 Thread tony mollica
Thorny wrote: On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:38:26 -0700, tony mollica posted: Thorny wrote: On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:29:16 -0700, tony mollica posted: Hello. Need a little help with a disk drive. Until today, my external storage drive was working fine using Debian 4.0 (latest updates) and ext2 file

new KDE (4.2) in Unstable, how's your experience?

2009-04-08 Thread H.S.
Hello, Has anybody been playing around with the new KDE we got a few days ago in Sid? The graphics are nice, but looks like the GUI is not as fast or responsive as the older one. This is on a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ with 2 GB of RAM and GeForce 8600 Nvidia card. On this kin

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-08 Thread H.S.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:17:56PM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:46:31PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Where does it hold the decrypted data? Does it stay in RAM, does it get > swapped, does it go

Re: How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel?

2009-04-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> -bash: http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: No such file > or directory As long as you keep `stable' in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, that shouldn't be a problem. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: autolock console

2009-04-08 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:26:27AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > On the standard console (alt+ctr+f1), no x session running, is it > possible to run a command after a certain number of minutes where no > keys have been pressed? Like the gnome screen saver, except for the > console. I want

Re: Kernel Build Problem: dpkg-gencontrol

2009-04-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Baron wrote: Building rt patched kernel using: make-kpkg --append-to-version -davidb-rt kernel_image Whatif you did: make-kpkg --revision 1 --append-to-version -davidb-rt kernel_image Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Debian Etch DVD

2009-04-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] wrote: >>From where can I download Etch DVD? Debian mirrors provide only 5.0.0 >(Lenny) download. Maybe: ftp://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/ (or your local mirror of cdimage.debian.org) FYI, Etch is Debian 4.0 and there were seven updates (so far) to Etch so

Re: Disk drive recovery help

2009-04-08 Thread Thorny
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:38:26 -0700, tony mollica posted: > Thorny wrote: >> On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:29:16 -0700, tony mollica posted: >> >>> Hello. >>> >>> Need a little help with a disk drive. >>> >>> Until today, my external storage drive was working fine using Debian >>> 4.0 (latest updates) >>

Re: debian testing

2009-04-08 Thread Thorny
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:50:03 -0400, Ken Heard posted: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thorny wrote: > > > >> Close to release time, Debian "testing" does become very stable and easy >> to use, after a new "stable" release, testing becomes more volatile and >> doesn't have

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade and kde4 transition

2009-04-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:59:27AM +0200, Sven Joachim was heard to say: > On 2009-04-08 04:40 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:23:55AM +0200, Sven Joachim > > was heard to say: > >> > >> But not the transition to kde4, since right now I cannot upgrade > >> anythi

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-08 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:34:46AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > zhang zhengquan writes: > > >Thanks, then maybe 10x20 is just small for me... > > To verify that the correct resources are being used, run > "xterm -fn 10x20". This will start an xterm with that font, > or display an error th

Re: Disk drive recovery help

2009-04-08 Thread tony mollica
Thorny wrote: On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:29:16 -0700, tony mollica posted: Hello. Need a little help with a disk drive. Until today, my external storage drive was working fine using Debian 4.0 (latest updates) and ext2 file system. It's a 180Gig drive divided into 3 partitions, 1 primary and 2 l

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-08 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:42:49AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 08 Apr 2009, zhang zhengquan wrote: > > 2009/4/8 Rob Starling : > > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > >> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >> > On Tue, Apr 0

Re: Adding a user

2009-04-08 Thread Frank
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 16:19 +0200, Samuel Bächler wrote: > Hi Frank > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > Running Squeeze - tried to add a user today using the graphical front > > end under Gksudo ...everything except properties was grayed out. > > > > I have implemented root on this machine - so I modif

Advice on raid/lvm

2009-04-08 Thread Kelly Harding
Hi, My server has got debian on it currently in the following configuration: 250Gb boot drive with partitions for / /boot /home 3x500Gb drives in RAID5 array, with XFS on top directly. Aiming to get a couple of 1Tb drives to migrate the 3x500Gb RAID5 array to a RAID1 and use two of the 500Gb dri

Re: creating a compact binary

2009-04-08 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Isn't there a tool that takes a dynamically linked binary and creates a statically linked binary without recompiling from source? Googling gives http://statifier.sourceforge.net/statifier/main.html which according to the description is what the OP needs. Sjoerd -- () as

Re: Adding a user

2009-04-08 Thread Samuel Bächler
Hi Frank Frank McCormick wrote: Running Squeeze - tried to add a user today using the graphical front end under Gksudo ...everything except properties was grayed out. I have implemented root on this machine - so I modified GDM to allow root logons...same result. What am I missing here? Wh

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

2009-04-08 Thread Thorny
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:18:58 +0300, Dotan Cohen posted: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/ >> >> > Thank you, Ken, I am aware of that list and subscribe to it. That list is > great for Microsoft bashing, discussing animal-themed backgrounds twice a > year, and bikesheding. Technical issues are understoo

Re: Bug#519028: How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel?

2009-04-08 Thread Thorny
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:52:57 +0800, jidanni posted: >> How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel? Depending on >> linux-image-686 isn't working these days. > (it depends on a package no longer available) > > $ cat sources.list > deb http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib n

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2009 #643

2009-04-08 Thread Leonardo Cuyar Morales
Hello I want to begin a new with this: I use sudo user to do some commands like root but after I "sudo su" to become root I can't write archives and files owned by root, is there a program who let me write this files

Re: creating a compact binary

2009-04-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:13:53PM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-04-06 18:59, Mag Gam wrote: > >> > >> I was wondering if its possible to compile src code (for example > >> rsync) to create 1 large binary. I want to do this to easily > >>

Re: 2.6 kernel issues

2009-04-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Steven, Please don't top post. I've tried to reorganize this in the correct order, but the quoting wasn't consistant. > -Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > [mailto:b...@iguanasuicide.net] Sent: Wednesday, 8 April 2009 2:17 p.m. > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:17:56PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:46:31PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>> Where does it hold the decrypted data? Does it stay in RAM, does it get > >>> swapped, does it go to a scratch file? > >> Thi

debian testing

2009-04-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I've been running unstable ever since Woody became Sid on my sources.list, no big problems to report. Sorry Ken! ;) Nuno Magalhães LU#484677 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

More Problems configuring sound card with alsa on debian

2009-04-08 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hi guys, I'm also having an ALSA problem. I put a SoundBlaster card in my Lenny box. If I run alsaconf every time I boot and everything works fine. What I don't understand is why the system resets the conf files every time it boots? Thanks. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: new problem - networking is strange

2009-04-08 Thread Thorny
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:30:08 -0400, Miles Fidelman posted: > Thorny wrote: >> On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:36:45 -0400, Miles Fidelman posted: [...] >> >>> Yeah, but it's a feature that's not well publicized and causes >>> >> confusing >> >>> behavior. >>> >>> Standard behavior, for years, ha

Re: Disk drive recovery help

2009-04-08 Thread Thorny
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:29:16 -0700, tony mollica posted: > Hello. > > Need a little help with a disk drive. > > Until today, my external storage drive was working fine using Debian 4.0 > (latest updates) > and ext2 file system. It's a 180Gig drive divided into 3 partitions, 1 > primary and 2 lo

Re: Broken upgrade seems to be perl. need help

2009-04-08 Thread Jake
Florian thank you for answering. Almost worked hehe. It went for a long while since there were so many updates since it had not updated for so long (procrastination on my part) So last out put of the -f install and upgrades are as follow this was the upgrade that almost worked Ommitted output...

Re: debian testing

2009-04-08 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thorny wrote: > Close to release time, Debian "testing" does become very stable and easy > to use, after a new "stable" release, testing becomes more volatile and > doesn't have as good security upgrades, that's because it's "testing". > Expect some

Re: autolock console

2009-04-08 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:37:42PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:26:27AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > possible to run a command after a certain number of minutes where no > > keys have been pressed? Like the gnome screen saver, except for the > > console. I want to be abl

Re: live-helper and custom live cd images

2009-04-08 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:16:40AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,07.Apr.09, 19:43:14, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > There is a debian live mailing list, although I'm not sure of the exact > > name. > > debian-live ;) > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-live Yes. Thanks, might subscribe

Re: Adding a user

2009-04-08 Thread Thorny
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:15:07 -0400, Frank McCormick posted: > Running Squeeze - tried to add a user today using the graphical front end > under Gksudo ...everything except properties was grayed out. > Graphical front end to what, what graphical front end? KDE? Gnome? Other? > I have implemented

Debian Etch DVD

2009-04-08 Thread Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक]
>From where can I download Etch DVD? Debian mirrors provide only 5.0.0 (Lenny) download. -- With Regards Abhishek Amberkar Learn to appreciate a beauty within... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: mondoarchive at Lenny ?

2009-04-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello It seems Mondoarchive is not available at Lenny when searching with apt-cache search mondo command there is no result. Does this package has been replaced by another one ? Use the debs from ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/debian/5.0/ You need: mondo 2.2.8 + mindi 2.0.6 +

Re: How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel?

2009-04-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: jida...@jidanni.org wrote: OK then, how do the _shmoes_ keep up with the latest kernel? Especially now that linux-image-686 depends on an unavailable package, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519028 Any other tracker packages left these days that point to

Re: Deploy job management system software such as PBS, LSF on Debian cluster.

2009-04-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, what about SLURM (slurm-llnl Debian package) ? hth, Jerome hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at 13:48, jsp...@sun.ac.za wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:52:50PM +0800, hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: I've setup a Debian cluster to construct a HPC workstatio

Re: joining Windows domain (Active Directory)

2009-04-08 Thread orange
Francisco Antônio da Silva Souza wrote: > Hello, I've found a tutorial: > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/340 > > It teaches how to configure Samba on Debian. > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:33 AM, orange wrote: > > > What is the easiest way to join ActiveDirectory, windows domain fro

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

2009-04-08 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Ken Teague wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Offending key in /home/hardy1/.ssh/known_hosts:28 >> RSA host key for 192.168.0.100 has changed and you have requested >> strict checking. > > Your invalid host key is on line #28.  Edit said file in vi and :28 to jump > to

Re: skype video crashing skype

2009-04-08 Thread Philip Taylor
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:56:45AM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > Now, when i try and use my webcam in skype, even just the preview in > > skype's preferences, it crashes and kills not just skype, but xorg and the > > whole of debian it > > seems, and the only way to get back seems to be to do

Re[2]: Deploy job management system software such as PBS, LSF on Debian cluster.

2009-04-08 Thread hongyi . zhao
On Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at 13:48, jsp...@sun.ac.za wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:52:50PM +0800, hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: >> I've setup a Debian cluster to construct a HPC workstation. Now, I >> want to install one of the job management system softwares, such as >> PBS, LSF, or some

Re: skype video crashing skype

2009-04-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> Now, when i try and use my webcam in skype, even just the preview in skype's > preferences, it crashes and kills not just skype, but xorg and the whole of > debian it > seems, and the only way to get back seems to be to do a hard-reset via power > button, Well... did you consider using your c

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

2009-04-08 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Apr 08, 2009 at 02:03:03 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > $ ssh -X u...@x.x.x.x > @@@ > @WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ > @@@ > IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE

Re: X.org driver

2009-04-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please try to turn off the HTML. ] On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 12:45:00 +0430, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > Hi all, > > How can I tell which driver is being used by x.org at run-time? You can find this information in the xorg log file, for example with this command: grep /drivers/ /var/log/Xorg.0.l

skype video crashing skype

2009-04-08 Thread Philip Taylor
Good day, I am running lenny i386/x86 32bit, and have the official skype repo in my sources.list. And all recent updates. Now, when i try and use my webcam in skype, even just the preview in skype's preferences, it crashes and kills not just skype, but xorg and the whole of debian it seems,

monitoring with mobile phone

2009-04-08 Thread michal krajcirovic
Hi, solve the problem with monitoring servers - defacto regards to watch a few basic functions of servers (apache, mysql, dns). The problem is not so much with monitoring (currently we only statusmon but Nagios + centreon or something like that up no problem), but is about the connected mobile

Re: [OT] Cursing Re: Dell Precision Workstation T7400 - 32bit

2009-04-08 Thread Cassiel
2009/4/8 Robert Holtzman > On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <49db1705.8060...@gmail.com>, Avi Greenbury wrote: >> >>> Cassiel wrote: >>> It comes with the f***ing vista pre-installed and (obviously) I want to install debian. >>> Also, in general, if it's no

Re: how to find out all the domain names that etch looks up

2009-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-04-07, Long Wind wrote: > Thanks! > > /etc/hosts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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